Personality

More bookstore yesterday, I read Do What You Are, a book I found in the "Career" section that helps you find meaningful work using the Myers Briggs/Jungian Personality descriptions. I found the book imminently more useful than so many other "find the right job!" books I've seen. It takes the time to explain the different functions of personality and then has detailed descriptions of the 16 types, along with a chapter for each one. In each personality chapter it has sample careers from other people with your type, along with a list of things you need in a job to feel satisfied and a long list of careers your personality type might find fulfilling. The book definitely reminded me of things I had forgotten about myself. It's easy to get wrapped up in things I liked/disliked in past jobs that I forget what I really need in a job.
I love personality theory, I took a class on it in college and my roomie majored in it and I'm always up for discussion on how personality affects one life, decisions, etc. In my class we took the looong Myers-Briggs test that were professionally scored but if you're interested in what the test is like, this one seems pretty accurate to me. It gave me the same results that I got on the "real" test: INFP.
What does that mean? Well first, some background. The MB test measures 4 different "functions" of personality: everyone falls somewhere in the range of two extremes for each of these functions. They are:

• Extroversion------Introversion (which isn't outgoing or shy but where you feel comfortable: out in the world, or in your own head?)
• Sensing-------Intuiting
• Thinking-------Feeling
• Judging--------Perceiving

I'm barely on the side of Introversion, very close to the extreme of Intuition and Feeling and right in the middle of Judging/Perceiving. You can read a description of my type (or your type, if you take the above test) here or here.

I had to write all this because I found the list of suitable jobs very intriguing. The very reason I picked up the book is because I'm feeling ambivalent and about what I should study when I go back to school (I used to be ambivalent about doing post-baccalaureate work, now I know that if I don't, I simply won't be satisfied): Entrepreneurship (MBA and self-employment), French Lit/Linguistics (translator) or Women's Studies/History of Textiles (Professor).
The conclusion: according to my personality: I'd be happy doing any of the above! Suitable careers include: artist, small business owner (in a service industry), college professor, interpreter/translator, webmaster/editor/designer (what I'm doing now, serendipitously).
Not a lot of help!

If you take (or have taken) the personality test, tell me about it! Are you doing a personality-suited job?